Marie Skłodowska-Curie

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Skłodowska Curie

Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences. She did in the world dominated by men. To find and to share her gift she offered her life as she died due to aplastic anemia brought on by exposure to radiation…